The true story follows protesters who disrupted the 1968 Democrat party convention with an anti-Vietnam war “carnival” that turned nasty.
Demonstrators threw bricks, police responded with tear gas and the center of Chicago was engulfed in flames.
Variety reports that Eddie Redmayne, the Oscar-winning actor from The Theory of Everything and the hit Harry Potter prequel franchise Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, has entered negotiations to star in the long-developed political drama The Trial of the Chicago 7.
Steven Spielberg was, for years, planning to direct The Trial of the Chicago 7 himself, but the plan became to move forward without Spielberg behind the camera when production was originally scheduled to start in January 2014.